The Monastery of Ten Thousand Buddhas

The Monastery of Ten Thousand Buddhas is way up on a cliff in the New Territories town of Sha Tin. In fact to reach the site you must climb labouriously up 400 old stone steps. As Hong Kong is always so humid, you sweat profusely, so it almost becomes like a sweat lodge experiance. I promise you however, that your troubles are all worth it.

At the top you can go inside part of the old monastery and be served warm red "Goddess" tea. Which is a delicate, difficult to find red jasmine tea.

I dont expect that everyone is spiritual, but even the most skeptic would detect the feeling of calm and peace that takes over the heavy air. Many people bring offerings of insence to burn at the summit.

The landscape surrounding it is beautiful, there is a lake below, and on the day I visited there was a exotic sort of mist draped through the trees.

At the monastery there is a giant pagoda and a temple with over 13,000 Buddha statues.

I don't have access to a scanner at this time but there are several photos at the following link:

http://www.dsphotographic.com/g2/hongkong/10000buddhas/